Protest of a policy/ governmental measure/ etc.

The National Federation of Worker and Employee Trade Unions demanded that the Lebanese government settle its social security debts in a protest outside the institution's office today, criticizing private hospitals' "overcharging," the NNA reports.

Relatives of people detained attempting to leave Lebanon for Cyprus by smuggler boat are demonstrating outside the Port of Tripoli. On Friday, the ISF said it foiled an attempt to smuggle 82 people from northern Lebanon by sea. 

وطنية - افاد مندوب "الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام" بان محتجين من عشائر عرب خلدة قطعوا اوتوستراد خلدة بالاتجاهين بالاطارات المشتعلة. وتشهد الطريق العام والطرق الفرعية   زحمة سير خانقة،والسير متوقف كليا.

Members of Khaldeh's Sunni Arab tribes blocked the Khaldeh highway with burning tires, protesting a judicial decision to keep in custody suspects connected to the Aug. 1 ambush of a Hezbollah member's funeral, the NNA reports

A man attempted to set himself on fire outside at the public girls’ school in Hasbaya on Thursday as he denounced a decision taken by the Education Minister Abbas Halabi to close secondary cycle classes, Al Nahar-reports. A video published on the newspaper’s website showed the man with a can of gasoline in his hand trying to spray himself with fuel to immolate himself before passersby intervened to prevent him from doing so. Taken by anger, the man screamed that “politics have ruined the country,” and that he “no longer wants to send his kids to school” but “wants to star